Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:48:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: cejkar@fit.vutbr.cz (Cejka Rudolf) Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.1 Released! Message-ID: <200306101348.h5ADmkeR091829@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20030610133105.GA66707@fit.vutbr.cz> from "Cejka Rudolf" at Jun 10, 2003 03:31:05 PM
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Cejka Rudolf wrote: > Ken Smith wrote (2003/06/10): > > [...] > > I think that most critical is situation, when there are updated files > on ftp-master and everybody wants to mirror them, so we do not need to > solve situation, when anybody runs cvsup when there is nothing new for > him. (???) > > > It seems like the ports updates are a roughly weekly thing but > > I don't think I have ever seen anyone say that. > > Maybe starts can be known, but how to know, when these uploads end? How about some kind of a "push model"? That is, whenever data on ftp-master has been updated (the upload has finished), a notification of some kind is sent. It could be a specially formatted e-mail message sent out to a list, which can be parsed automatically by scripts. It contains the pathname(s) of the part(s) of the FTP tree that have been updated, so the scripts can decide if and what to sync from ftp-master. Just an idea. I guess there's already some read-made software for that. Another possibility would be to, say, update information on a web page, which is also automatically parsable. It would still require polling the web page regularly, but I guess that's much less overhead than cvsup, so it can be done more often. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.
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